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genealogical tree
genealogical tree n. a table exhibiting the relation of ancestors to descendants under the form of a tree with spreading branches; also, a table showing the descent of animal species from a supposed common origin.extracted from genealogicaladj.
genealogical tree
a. A diagram or table of a family, indicating its original ancestor as the root, and the various branches of descendants; in full, family tree or genealogical tree. Also figurative a family, race, stock.Porphyrian tree (Logic): see Porphyrian tree n. at Porphyrian adj.1 and n. Compounds.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc.
tree1297
pedigreec1425
Jesse1463
kindred's tree1605
birth brief1662
family tree1752
pedigree-stick1893
stemma1904
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7255 Þo smot uerst þis tre aȝen to is kunde more [i.e. natural root].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1625 Bot first a tre,..I sal sette hire [Trin. Cambr. here] of adam kin.
1693 G. Stepney tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires viii. 147 Vain are their Hopes, who fancy to inherit By Trees of Pedigrees, or Fame, or Merit.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 303 Two genealogic trees.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 179 A more honourable tree does not flourish in the archives of heraldry than ours.
1858 M. Arnold Merope 865 So dies the last shoot of our royal tree!
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genealogical tree
The pattern of historical relationships between species or other taxonomic groups resulting from divergence as a consequence of evolution or selective breeding; (also) a diagram or theoretical model of such relationships. Frequently with modifying word, as evolutionary tree, genealogical tree, phylogenetic tree, etc. Cf. also family tree n. 3.
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1792 J. S. Barr tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. V. 339 To give a clearer idea of the different kinds of dogs, of their degeneration in different climates, and of the mixture of their breed, I subjoin a kind of genealogical tree [Fr. arbre généalogique], in which all the different varieties may easily be distinguished. The shepherd's dog is the stock or body of the tree.
1817 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Disc. (ed. 3) IV. 268 We might form a genealogical tree of them [sc. the varieties or cultivars of Brassica oleracea]..; but a genealogical tree without proofs is as of little value in natural history as in claims for hereditary titles and estates.
1899 Science 29 Dec. 968/2 In a pictorial phylogenetic tree the type of the ganoid is given as the ‘gar-pike’.
1914 F. Rothwell tr. E. Boutroux Nat. Law in Sci. & Philos. x. 144 The followers of Lamarck and Darwin..are endeavouring to draw up the genealogical tree of species.
1992 Discover May 19/2 In a cladistic analysis, one tries to determine how a number of organisms are related and arrange them on the most plausible evolutionary tree—or cladogram..—by focusing on certain key characteristics.
2008 T. Audesirk et al. Biology (ed. 8) vii. 367/1 Notice the positions on the tree of the four human viruses (two strains of HIV-1 and two of HIV-2).
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